Thistlewood History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

Early Origins of the Thistlewood family

The surname Thistlewood was first found in Yorkshire where they held a family seat from very ancient times, before and after the Norman Conquest in 1066, when that county included the northern part of Lancashire and Cumberland, about the 11th century.

Early History of the Thistlewood family

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Thistlewood Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Thistlethwaite, Thistlethwayte and others.

Early Notables of the Thistlewood family

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Thistlewood migration to Australia +

Thistlewood Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century

Mr. Edward Samuel Thistlewood, English convict who was convicted in Kent, England for 15 years, transported aboard the "Barossa" on 8th December 1839, arriving in New South Wales, Australia 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Thistlewood (post 1700) +

Napoleon Bonaparte Thistlewood (1837-1915), American Republican politician, Mayor of Cairo, Illinois, 1879-83, 1897-1901; U.S. Representative from Illinois 25th District, 1908-13 2
Arthur Thistlewood (1770-1820), English conspirator, born at Tupholme, about twelve miles from Lincoln; he was 'firmly persuaded that the first duty of a patriot was to massacre the government and overturn all existing institutions’; he was hanged, with four other conspirators, in front of the debtor's door, Newgate, on 1 May 1820 3

Sources +

Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 24th September 2020). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/barossa
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 22) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
Wikisource contributors. "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900." Wikisource . Wikisource , 4 Jun. 2018. Web. 30 Jan. 2019